Scientific Name: Pyrus salicifolia
Common Name: willowleaf pear
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 5 - 7m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Upright
Form: Round, Weeping
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Small garden/space
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Corymb, White, Apr
Fruit: Edible, Pome, Green-yellow, Green, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Pendulous cultivars common; leaves alternate, lanceolate-narrowly elliptic, 5-10cm long x 1-2cm wide, grayish, pubescence about the same on upper and lower surface, margin entire; flowers white, ~2cm wide, Apr; pomes ~3cm wide, green then green-yellow, Oct.